Hello all,

Some years ago, there has been a case of plagiarism (so I believe) in 
Turkey. It was a direct translation (with all page format and 
settings etc.) of a famous English textbook into Turkish. Even a typo 
in the original book was taken directly. The person who did this put 
his own name to the book without mentioning the original author ((and 
even more amusingly, the cover image itself was taken from another 
famous English textbook). He was then appointed to full professorship 
(he still is); even though everyone knows about the incident (it 
appeared on a national newspaper as well) , nobody has (to my 
knowledge at least) taken any action. Interestingly enough, the 
original author also knew about the incident; but he did not care. If 
the original author does not care about it, who will?

Best,

Huseyin Ozel